fix(blog): ui bugs around padding and card layout

[yashmehrotra]

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Style
  • Improved blog post card layouts with consistent spacing, taller cards, and bottom-aligned tags.
  • Refined footer styling and responsive layout behavior.
  • Enhanced author name and title typography.
  • Added dedicated styling for blog tag page headers, titles, and links.
• New Features
  • Card grids now support customizable horizontal and vertical spacing.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved spacing around blog post lists and pagination for more consistent page layouts.

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Walkthrough

The PR updates shared card spacing and footer selectors. It adjusts blog post card layout, author typography, paginator spacing, and tag-page header styling.

Changes

Blog presentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared card and footer layout common/src/components/Card.jsx, common/src/components/Footer.jsx, common/src/css/custom.css	Cards accepts configurable gap classes. Footer uses the site-footer class, and footer CSS selectors target that class.
Blog post listing layout common/src/theme/BlogPostItem/Card/index.js, common/src/theme/BlogPostItems/index.js, common/src/theme/Blog/Components/Author/styles.module.css, common/src/theme/BlogPostPaginator/index.js	Blog post cards use taller full-height layouts with bottom-aligned tags. The grid, author text, and paginator spacing are updated.
Blog tag page styling common/src/theme/BlogTagsPostsPage/index.js, common/src/theme/BlogTagsPostsPage/styles.module.css, common/src/css/custom.css	The tag post list page uses CSS module styles for its header, title, and all-tags link. Its theme class is enabled, and related blog selectors are updated.

Possibly related PRs

• flanksource/docs#493: Both PRs modify common/src/theme/BlogPostItems/index.js for blog post list presentation.
• flanksource/docs#525: Both PRs modify blog post card layout and shared card presentation.

Suggested reviewers: moshloop, adityathebe

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b992b

The updated blog styling includes a CSS selector that may fail the repository’s naming lint rule, potentially preventing checks from passing. This is a bounded, low-impact issue that is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the primary blog UI changes to padding and card layout.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Inline comments:
In `@common/src/theme/BlogTagsPostsPage/styles.module.css`:
- Around line 13-15: Rename the .allTagsLink selector to a kebab-case class in
the stylesheet, then update the corresponding CSS Modules reference in
BlogTagsPostsPage so the link retains the same styling.

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• common/src/components/Card.jsx
• common/src/components/Footer.jsx
• common/src/css/custom.css
• common/src/theme/Blog/Components/Author/styles.module.css
• common/src/theme/BlogPostItem/Card/index.js
• common/src/theme/BlogPostItems/index.js
• common/src/theme/BlogPostPaginator/index.js
• common/src/theme/BlogTagsPostsPage/index.js
• common/src/theme/BlogTagsPostsPage/styles.module.css

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